LEX18.com - Lexington, KY

Posted: Jul 14, 2010 10:34 AM
Updated: Jul 14, 2010 5:30 PM

BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A northern Kentucky teacher accused of whipping his son with a belt says he never bruised the boy and the allegations were made by his former wife.
     
Christopher Robison of Union is charged with felony criminal child abuse.
     
The Kentucky Enquirer reported the complaint said Robison caused severe bruising to his son when he whipped him because he was dissatisfied with how the 5-year-old was playing hopscotch.
     
Robison told the newspaper he took his son into the house and hit him on the buttocks twice after the boy talked back to him several times while playing the game outside. He said two bruises on the boy came from a fall at a swimming pool.
     
The Boone County Schools superintendent said Robison is suspended from his job pending an internal investigation.

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